Inventor · Leven, GB

Ross Saunders

21Patents
10h-index
37Co-inventors
75Inventor score

Filing activity: Sep 8, 1997 → Nov 3, 2022

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6124960A Transmission system with cross-phase modulation compensation Electricity 45 Expired
US7242862B2 Network diagnostic tool for an optical transport network Electricity 42 Expired
US7986878B2 Adjustable bit rate optical transmission using programmable signal modulation Electricity 33 Active
US5970185A Optical switches, modulators and transmitters Physics 22 Expired
US7099597B2 Method of adaptive signal degradation compensation Electricity 21 Expired
US6865151B1 Methods and systems for optimizing data transmission in networks Electricity 19 Expired
US7257120B2 Quality of service (QoS) based supervisory network for optical transport systems Electricity 18 Expired
US6317236A Method and apparatus for transmitting an internet protocol (IP) packet within a fiber optic network Electricity 15 Expired
US7088436B2 Integrated optical time domain reflectometer and optical supervisory network Electricity 15 Expired
US6915036B2 Field reconfigurable line cards for an optical transport system Electricity 10 Expired
US6999678B2 Adaptive method for chirping an optical data signal Electricity 10 Expired
US7027732B2 WDM cross-connects for core optical networks Electricity 10 Expired
US7280767B1 Half rate precoded data RZ transmitter Electricity 6 Expired
US6577413B1 Method and apparatus for polarization multiplexing and demultiplexing optical tributary signals Electricity 6 Expired
US6259542A Method and apparatus for monitoring dispersive-wave energy to indicate and optimize soliton transmission performance Electricity 5 Expired
US10659854B1 Pluggable aggregation module for an optical network Electricity 5 Active
US6388781B1 Apparatus for time division/wave division conversion Electricity 2 Expired
US7079764B2 Fault isolation technique for optical networks Electricity 2 Expired
US6708001B1 Method and apparatus for transmitting an internet protocol (IP) packet within a fiber optic network Electricity 0 Expired
US7515784B2 Field reconfigurable line cards for an optical transport system Electricity 0 Active
US12101125B2 Method of operating a bidirectional optical transmission link and corresponding optical transmission link Electricity 0 Active

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